 Welcome to Toffy TV, it's my three things. Everton won, Leeds United nil, the Blues have got a huge, huge three points today in the battle for survival. It's another clean sheet which I'm sure of the light show on that. It wasn't a great performance by Everton today. I couldn't sit here and say any difference. In fact to be honest, they looked like two poor Premier League teams today. But Everton were the better of the two and should have really won the game by more goals. Leeds were no real threat at all today. Even being honest, didn't even have an attempt on target and they look like they're in trouble. But Everton are still obviously massively in trouble ourselves as well as a few other teams are. First thing I'm going to talk about is our centre forward position. Obviously Dominic Calvert-Lewin, not available today. Everton trying the very best to get to the bottom of what's been causing them all of these issues. It hasn't been one. Hamdrasling is the latest. Dyt is talked about mattresses and cars and a type of bed he sleeps in and diets and all of this. They have got to get to the bottom of it. Dominic Calvert-Lewin, a fifth Dominic Calvert-Lewin is somebody who could actually keep Evan up in the Premier League because he is a threat. I think he's got on the end of the balls that are whacked across the six yard box today. But he's a focal point for us. He keeps the ball well. He wins things in the air. And he's a real threat and Everton have to get to the bottom of that. Today, the manager chose Neil Mawpai. Obviously picked Ellis Sims against Liverpool and that didn't really work. He's gone with Mawpai today. I really think that worked. I think for Neil Mawpai, I think it's, I'm just not sure what type of striker he is. He's not a penalty box striker. We showed it today. The two that got fired across the six yard box in the first half. There's one in the second half as well. Dwight McNeill might have been. He should have been in those areas ready for tapings and he's outside of the dangerous areas. He's not quick. He's not particularly, he's not a dribbler and he doesn't keep the ball. He doesn't look really strong. He's a second striker. He needs a target man. To play with. And we haven't, we're not going to play that right now. And then obviously there's the rority of that. Even a word, the rority. No, probably not a word, but we've got the rawness. That's more like it of Ellis Sims. And maybe the thing with Ellis Sims is he is a bit more of a handful. Okay, he's not someone who big target man who wins others, although we did win a couple today. I fell out, I haven't watched them for the 21s. It's a different ball game. Totally different ball game, but he knows where the net is. He's done that and carried that on in league one. He carried that on in the Scottish Premier league with heart. He's carried that on in a championship with Sunderland. The lad knows how to put the ball in the net. And ever. And I guess the challenge for Sean Dycheon, Ian Wong and Steve Stone and others is to get him more involved off the ball, get him working harder off the ball and then create chances for him. We had one today where if Blight McNeill just picks his head up and plays a forward pass through a big gap, Sims is one on one. And he might just think that in and kill the game near the end and get him off the mark and give us the breathing space we need. And it didn't happen. We're not creating opportunities for him to miss. But for me right now he seems like the more natural fit and it might have to be until Dom's fully fit. That we just persevere with him and that we do the hard yards with him right now, which is go through this period where he is raw. He's learning on the job. It's difficult. It's the Premier League, the toughest league in terms of physicality and power and pace to learn. But we just look so much better when he comes on. Now people might say now and say well, Maupai had done a lot of the other stuff and Sims came on fresh. And that might be something in that. But I just think it gives us the opportunity to get out a little bit quicker than what it is with Maupai. I think Neil Maupai for me needs a target man with him to get the best out of him. Denny becomes the link player, the player that drops into the pocket almost like a number 10 type player. But we'll see whether she won't change, is that? Second thing I'm going to talk about is our home form, which will be imperative to us staying up. Away from home, we've been rubbish for years. We've had one good away record in the last, God knows how many years, and that was with Carlo and it was in the Covid season. So there's no fans. We won 12 away games, which is amazing, but there's no fans in any of the stadiums. In fact, the first away game we played that year with fans in was at the Etihad and we got B5 won the last game of the season. So our away form isn't very good. We don't have the players to pick teams off really. Frank Lampard last season got certainly got a win at Leicester, didn't he? A big win at Leicester. He got one at Southampton this season, but that was it really with Avon Antony Gordon and Damari Greywide. Obviously right now we've got a Wobie and McNeill who aren't exactly. Alex a Wobie is full of running. McNeill works hard. They're not lightning counter attacking players and then obviously we've got Maupai through the middle of it isn't so we do have to we do have to constant not constant say because obviously away from home you've got to just be tight and make sure the structure is right and then take your opportunities when they come but at home that's where for me all our points will come if we're going to stay. We've got home games against. We've got Villa, Brentford, Fulham, Newcastle, Manchester City, Tottenham, Bournemouth, all to come ac all those things. There's points there. There's no doubt there is points there. We need five wins. Now okay you could look and go well Spares, Spares, Newcastle and City. You can write them off. I mean you can't because we've just been to Arsenal in the top so you can never write any game off but say they're tough games but obviously Villa's tough and Brentford's tough and Bournemouth will be tough and you know so that we can't we can't hand pick games. We've just got to make sure that when we play a good or something the crowd are off for it. It was it was flat at times today but then obviously there was other times when they really did keep kick the team on and once we scored they made sure that they kept going. We've got to give the crowd something to to respond to something to be excited by something to to stay involved in the game. You don't everything don't do that enough but home is where the points will be and then away from home we've got to go and try and notting in forest which will be tricky. We still got to go to walls, we've got to go to Crystal Palace so you know there's places where we can go lester who are in trouble still. Then on out the woods there's points to be had on the road maybe some of those points will be draws. That's fine if we're winning our home games and that really will be will probably be the plan that you're trying to implement. Just you know go and be trying to be difficult to beat away from home and then if we have the opportunity or we can get in front of one of those games against certainly teams that are around us try to try to hold on and make something but home will be where the points will come for me and if that's the case then you know we'll give ourselves a really good opportunity. Another big game next Saturday now Aston Villa at home represent a good opportunity to win. They'll be really dangerous Watkins, Cattino, Leon Bailey people like that. Wendy, they've got lots of players who are skillful and have got ability and they were quick and will have to have our wits about us. It'll be a really tough game but no game's going to be easy now and the running is it is what it is. It's a scrap, it's a bitter, bitter scrap right to the end and that's what we that's what we have to do. So that's what we've got to go with. Third thing we want to talk about just very briefly because I haven't really got a third. Today is will be the importance of getting the squad players back, the importance of getting players back like Nathan Patterson and James Garn and they both played Patterson done 63-64 minutes last night and Garn had done another 10 on top of that I think he'd done 71-72. It's very, very important to get those players back. Obviously Dominic Alvelywn has spoken about before, it's massively important to have him back. We need that bench to be as strong as it possibly can be. Having Patterson and Garn are available. Obviously we've not really seen much of James Garnor. He's slightly different profile to what we have in midfield. Obviously right now Shaun Dyche is is preferring the midfield three of the Corae Ounana and Garnor. Now obviously I'm going to do Ounana's gone off today. Hopefully that's nothing too serious. I've not heard anything at the moment on that one. Tom Davies came on but obviously there's an opportunity for James Garnor. We've like I said he will be the new player, like a new player because we haven't seen him so we really will be like a new player. We've not seen much of him so he could make an impact giving us a little bit something a little bit different in midfield and obviously we know that when Nathan Patterson's on it. Now James Cullman had just given me on a matty just got the winner today which is tremendous but it's good to have Patterson back to full fitness as well. We've seen him when he started the season really strongly in the side and we were all gutted when he got injured and he come back and obviously picked up another injury. He needs to stay fit and get himself in the team and get himself on a run of games and giving us you know showing us what he brings because the youthful legs he brings, the up and down, the tackles, the power of him, he's no slouch out that that'll make a big difference to us even if it's just off the bench at the moment for James Cullman or whatever. We need to have as many players have a good level fit now for the final 15 games. It was good that Sean Dyche and Ian Whale and Steve Stone were at Southport to watch Everton under 21's play obviously Stanley Mills scored in that game he's been involved Isaac Price has been in the squad this season he was playing as well and obviously the likes of Reese Wells was there as well so you know we're gonna need these lads we're gonna need as many of these fit as possible and the better your options off the bench that can make a big difference to us you know 15 games to go five wins for me is what we need and having the best players available that you've got in your squad to do it gives you the best chance so good to see those people back right that is it from me I've bored you long enough going off a great weekend if you'd never told you enjoy it it's not often we win two Saturdays out of the last three with the clean sheet so go on enjoy the rest of the weekend give the video a thumbs up subscribe if you haven't and have a great one see you later thanks for watching see you